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Choriambic Metered Quatrain

A chapter in the book Picture Poems

Birdhouse

by Treischel

There are 9 different poetic meters, with iambic being the most common. This is a less known one.
 
 

Birdhouse on high, built by a pro,

Placed on a pole no one can reach.

Only the birds, ever shall go

Into these homes, each unto each.

 





This birdhouse was at a friend's house standing alone in a field a couple yards from the house. Needs some paint. I thought it looked like a rundown tenant for birds, so I took this picture.
This poem is a single abab rhymed quatrain but written in an unusual meter not often used. It is Choriambic. While an iambic meter has a two syllable foot of a short- long
accent, the choriambic is a four syllable foot having a long-short-short-long accent. So, my poem has two choriambic feet per line of eight syllables. For example:

Iambic: The bird is in the bush
Choriambic: What do I see, birds in the bush.
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